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In the early 20th century, there were thousands of car companies in the USA. That changed to 3 biguns today, and 27 total including minor manufacturers. | In the early 20th century, there were thousands of car companies in the USA. That changed to 3 biguns today, and 27 total including minor manufacturers. | ||
But is there a case for the open source version to arise in every city of 100 people and up? Yes, because that distributes wealth. | But is there a case for the open source version to arise in every city of 100,000 people and up? Yes, because that distributes wealth. That would mean thousands of manufacturers. | ||
What would life look like then? | |||
Revision as of 19:08, 19 December 2018
The OSE Change Model calls for distributed market substitution - the substitution of common goods and services with efficient ones. The assumption here is that any enterprise that is not open source is not efficient. And the definition of 'efficient' matters - efficient must be in an integrated sense of taking care of the environment (planting trees, regenerating land, no pollution, no resource degradation), taking care of people (no slavery, alienation, violence; educates people), and taking care of the economic prosperity (right livelihood).
For an enterprise to be efficient all social, environmental, and economic terms - there are some needs:
- It educates. Education systems will continue to create disparity as long as proprietary information exists, because access is limited whenever information does not flow freely.
- It takes care of the environment
- It takes care of economic prosperity
Take a case of centralized production and why we believe that proprietary production cannot compete with open source. Production is increasingly information rich. And information can be shared freely at zero economic cost (Rifkin). Thus, more access is available on a local scale - which suggests that the limit of the economy as information becomes free is economic localization.
What is economic localization? It is the local production of goods which can be produced efficiently in the local area.
Is there a case that centralized companies will be replaced by larger numbers of smaller companies? In the world of megacorporations this does not seem the case - but from a deeper analysis it appears to be the only logical end.
For local production to happen, high quality plans are required. And so are open source productive machines.
In the early 20th century, there were thousands of car companies in the USA. That changed to 3 biguns today, and 27 total including minor manufacturers.
But is there a case for the open source version to arise in every city of 100,000 people and up? Yes, because that distributes wealth. That would mean thousands of manufacturers.
What would life look like then?